Let's Remember and Pray for Christians in Iraq

[n david]

And people continue to claim Islam is a peaceful religion. smh

[KeptByTheWord]

The news report said they were Christians. I didn't realize they were Yazidi, and actually had never even heard of Yazidi until MTD mentioned, and then I looked them up. Apparently Yazidi are a group of people who have combined just about every religion in the world, including Islam and Christianity into one.

Regardless of who these people are, we need to pray for them. The series of events happening in Iraq is showing exactly how these militant people think, and that their greatest desire is to take this kind of warfare to American soil.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

The news report said they were Christians. I didn't realize they were Yazidi, and actually had never even heard of Yazidi until MTD mentioned, and then I looked them up. Apparently Yazidi are a group of people who have combined just about every religion in the world, including Islam and Christianity into one.

Regardless of who these people are, we need to pray for them. The series of events happening in Iraq is showing exactly how these militant people think, and that their greatest desire is to take this kind of warfare to American soil.

Not even sure if that is their GREATEST desire.
I imagine their GREATEST desire is more intense than bloodshed.

After all, islam is a religion of peace.

They have a motivation-- bloodshed is their means to get their desire.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

After all, islam is a religion of peace.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by n david

SHHHHH!

Listen, I'm trying to have a decent discussion here...

[n david]

While I wouldn't support the use of troops, I do support using drones, jets and cruise missiles against ISIS to help these people trapped.

Since we're bombing, we might as well target the leadership of ISIS along with any other installations they control.

[Abiding Now]

Muslims? I know, they hate us. Who cares. They are being massacred. Seems that I recall that we should "pray for them which despitefully use you".

[Abiding Now]

Yazidi


A historically misunderstood group, the Yazidis are predominantly ethnically Kurdish, and have kept alive their syncretic religion for centuries, despite many years of oppression and threatened extermination.

The ancient religion is rumoured to have been founded by an 11th century Ummayyad sheikh, and is derived from Zoroastrianism (an ancient Persian faith founded by a philosopher), Christianity and Islam. The religion has taken elements from each, ranging from baptism (Christianity) to circumcision (Islam) to reverence of fire as a manifestation from God (derived from Zoroastrianism) and yet remains distinctly non-Abrahamic. This derivative quality has often led the Yazidis to be referred to as a sect.

At the core of the Yazidis’ marginalization is their worship of a fallen angel, Melek Tawwus, or Peacock Angel, one of the seven angels that take primacy in their beliefs. Unlike the fall from grace of Satan, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Melek Tawwus was forgiven and returned to heaven by God. The importance of Melek Tawwus to the Yazidis has given them an undeserved reputation for being devil-worshippers – a notoriety that, in the climate of extremism gripping Iraq, has turned life-threatening.

Under Ottoman rule in the 18th and 19th centuries alone, the Yazidis were subject to 72 genocidal massacres. More recently in 2007, hundreds of Yazidis were killed as a spate of car bombs ripped through their stronghold in northern Iraq. With numbers of dead as close to 800, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent, this was one of the single deadliest events to take place during the American-led invasion.

The Yazidis had been denounced as infidels by Al-Qaida in Iraq, a predecessor of Isis, which sanctioned their indiscriminate killing.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...city-mountains

[votivesoul]

Reports all over the web indicate that ISIS has been marauding against all non-Muslim groups, including Christians.

Worse, yet, be-headings, even of children, are reported to have occurred, likewise of crucifixions.

I have seen some of the pics. I hope they are photo-shopped fakes. I really do. But I don't think they are (Don't go searching for them unless you are prepared to see the worse humanity has to offer--very graphic, gory, and violent).

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

Reports all over the web indicate that ISIS has been marauding against all non-Muslim groups, including Christians.

Worse, yet, be-headings, even of children, are reported to have occurred, likewise of crucifixions.

I have seen some of the pics. I hope they are photo-shopped fakes. I really do. But I don't think they are (Don't go searching for them unless you are prepared to see the worse humanity has to offer--very graphic, gory, and violent).

I don't want to see the pictures. I'll take your word for it. I don't know what the answer is. It seems if we don't fight them on their soil, they will grow until they are able to come here to our soil, and do this to us. And that is the part that should worry us all.